Stressful events can hijack cognition, cloud judgment, and leave emotional residue that can fuel long-term burnout. For acute care clinicians, those moments of emotional overwhelm, when heart rate spikes and the thinking brain goes offline, can have consequences that last far beyond the shift. While long-term resilience is essential, it’s often the just-in-time strategies that determine whether we break down or rise to the moment. In this episode, we explore the physiology and psychology of real-time emotional regulation with Scott Weingart, MD, co-creator of the<a href="https://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644%2817%2930314-1/fulltext" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0196064417303141" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Beat the Stress Fool protocol.</a> Finally, we uncover how practices like gratitude flooding and negative visualization can inoculate against burnout and offer emotional integrity in the most harrowing moments of care.💡 Check out our <a href="https://stimulus.captivate.fm/free-resources" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Free Resources</a> specifically designed to address pain points in medical practice💡Scott Weingart, MD, is an emergency department intensivist and physician coach based in New York. He completed fellowships in Trauma, Surgical Critical Care, and ECMO, and is internationally recognized for his expertise in resuscitation and critical care. As the creator of the <a href="https://emcrit.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EMCrit podcast</a>, with over 40 million downloads, he has shaped how clinicians think and perform under pressure. Together, Scott and I co-founded <a href="https://guidewirecoaching.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Guidewire Coaching</a>, where we create and teach tailored courses to address the real-world pain points of acute care medicine.<h2>We Discuss:</h2><ul><li>Rapid stress reset with “Beat the Stress Fool”</li><li>Breathing techniques that calm the nervous system</li><li>Self-talk under pressure</li><li>Mental rehearsal that ends in success</li><li>Trigger words for fast de-escalation</li><li>Gratitudinal flooding as a shield during emotional overload</li><li>Real-time tools for grief resilience</li><li>The quiet strength of negative visualization</li><li>Teaching stress tools to trainees without pushback</li></ul> Mentioned in this episode:Never Lame. Never Spammy. Always Fresh.If you’d like a few minutes of career-elevating curated kickassery delivered to your inbox, sign up for our newsletter. <a href="https://stimulus.captivate.fm/newsletter">Sign up for our Newsletter</a>UnBurnable - Our Cohort-Based Burnout Prevention and Cure CourseAs physician coaches, my partner, Scott Weingart, and I have noticed a pattern: some doctors are thoroughly burned out, and some are on the path to burnout. Almost all were shortchanged in their medical training, having been molded into excellent clinicians but given virtually no tools for retaining joy and equanimity throughout their careers.

This course will teach you the hidden anti-burnout curriculum.<a href="https://stimulus.captivate.fm/unburnable">The UnBurnable Course</a>5 Free Tools To Make Medical Practice EasierScripts for your least favorite conversations.
The quick and dirty guide to calling consults. 
A 10-minute "Driveway Debrief" to switch off from work. 
My favorite documentation templates. 
Step-by-step guide for delivering the news of death. 
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